Data-driven Prototypes
Phil Factor on a tale of how dodgy mock data derailed an otherwise-convincing prototype.
2018-01-15
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Editorial
2022-05-16 (first published: 2018-01-15)
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Disable or Drop
When you need to debug or troubleshoot, Steve Jones wants you to disable, not drop, objects.
2018-01-12
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Job Interviews: What is Normalization?
Do you know how to answer normalization questions in an interview? Steve Jones gives you a few ideas and recommends you brush up on your knowledge.
2022-05-20 (first published: 2018-01-11)
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2018-01-10
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Is This Data Science?
An analysis of salaries uses statistics to determine significance of the data. Is this data science?
2018-01-09
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It's the Engineers
The staff that build your systems are more important than your choice of technology.
2022-05-23 (first published: 2018-01-08)
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It's Time to Patch and Upgrade
With bugs in our CPUs, everyone needs to plan on patching or upgrading.
2018-01-05
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Using Better Tools
Some companies don't want to use tools, but that doesn't make sense to Steve Jones.
2018-01-04
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2018-01-03
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Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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Question of the Day
The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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